The Hateful 8

I would like to talk about one film I really enjoyed. It is The Hateful 8. Thi film is a kind of western, and I say a "kind of" because although it is, it also has some elements that are not the usual in the western films. For example, if we think in a western film we should think in a film that it's set up in the desert, or in a film that develops on the outside in open spaces and we also have to think in a film with a lot of duels. Different to this "topics", in The Hateful 8 we can find a snowy landscape and the plot happens practically all in the shelter of a refuge. But even so we find in The Hateful 8 all the characters we like to find in any western: the bounty hunter, the executioner, the confederated, the sheriff, the Mexican, "the little man", the cowboy and the prisoner. So Tarantino presents his latest film, a film that makes us feel the cold as if we were in the refuge and a film that makes us hate the characters as if we were with theme. So this is the second western of the director and it has a unique premise: someone to hate.
 

The story is set few years later after the Civil War in America. The stagecoach passengers move through the snow road to Red Rock town. Is there where the bounty hunter John Ruth will deliver his prisoner Daisy Domergue to the authorities to be pay the bounty for the Daisy's head. By the way to Red Rock John Ruth run into two unknowing: the major Marquins Warren who now is another bounty hunter and with Chris Mannix who says to be the new sheriff of Red Rock. 

Because of a storm, they are forced to take refuge into the Minnie's haberdashery. But there they don't find what they expect but another group of four more unknowns: a Mexican, the executioner, a cowboy and a confederated general. All theme seems not to have any relationship but, after all, as the storm falls on the haberdasher the eight travelers find out that they may not reach Red Rock.

The film has mystery, suspense, action and a great plot. Nobody knows nobody and nobody can trust in nobody. They are eight unknowing (or maybe they are more?) and they haven't met by change. Everybody seems to have a different reason to be in the refuge, but all of them have something in common: all of them have several thing to be hate that nobody could imagine. This is what happened when they all meet in the same refuge for only one night.

Tarantino take us a completely western between four walls. All happens in a little refuge, all they have a reason to be there and all of them have a story that better they don't explain. If we know Tarantino films for something is for their great dialogues. The Hateful 8 doesn't have less and the three hours of film are three hours full of excellent and extraordinary dialogues by amazing characters interpreted in a perfect way. If I like something of Tarantinos films are they dialogues and I can say that this film has a spectacular ones. Each sentence said by each character fits in a perfect way with the personality of the character and with the moment. 

Taking into account that this is a Tarantino film, something that can impress us is that Tarantino keep the action during all the film without make use of the guns, something that is unusual both in Tarantino films and in western films. But all happens in a way that makes not necessary the use of the arms since there aren't any other way. Little by little the secrets have been discovered and the refugees have been "eliminated", but when it seems that all is clear suddenly take place a new success that gives a twist to the above. What at first seems to be only eight unknowing, ends beeing eight enemies and they are in the same place for a reason that we only could know at the end. 

And now I have great news: this is only the second of the three westerns that the director wants to do. If I like the first, Django Unchained and I loved this second, I can't wait for the third!